The election was held on the 25th of February 2023.
Nigeria has 12 presidential candidates, selected from a political party.
They are:
Alhaji Atiku Abubakar – Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP)
Asiwaju Bola Tinubu – All Progressive Congress (APC).
Dumebi Kachikwu – African Democratic Congress(ADC)
√ Mr peter Obi – Labour Party (LP).
√ Mr Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso – New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP).
√ Mr Kola Abiola – People’s Redemption Party (PRP).
√ Omoyele Sowore – Africa Action Congress (AAC).
√ Prince Adewole Adebayo – Social Democratic Party (SDP).
√ Prince Malik Ado-Ibrahim – Young Progressive Party (YPP).
√ Professor Christopher Imumulen – Accord Party (AP).
√ Professor Peter Umeadi – All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA).
√ Yusuf Mamman Dan Talle – Allied Peoples Movement (APM).
Brief Description of The Top 4 Nigerian Presidential Election 2023.
The top 4 most popular candidates for the Nigerian presidential election in 2023, are
1. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, a former two-term governor of Lagos State and presidential candidate for the All Progressive Congress (APC).
2. Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, a member of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), is currently the front-runner for the presidency in the election of 2023. Mr Atiku was once vice president of Nigeria.
The title of Mr Atiku’s platform is “My Covenant With Nigerians.”
3. Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria’s People Party (NNPP) is the third well-liked contender. His platform is named “My Promise.”
He has also held the position of governor of Kano State.
4. Last but not least, Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s (Lp) presidential candidate and a former two-term governor of Anambra State.
“Our Pact With Nigeria” is the title of Mr Obi’s manifesto.
How The 2023 Nigerian Presidential Election Was Conducted.
The Independent Electoral Commission(INEC) earlier revealed the 2023 Presidential election will be conducted with Bimodal Voter Authentication Systems to enable accurate voting.
The commision set the election’s start time as 8:30 am and the end time as 2:30 pm on February 25, 2023.
INEC earlier revealed the 2023 Presidential election will be conducted with Bimodal Voter Authentication Systems to enable accurate voting.
Individuals who showed political awareness by obtaining their Permanent Voters Card (PVC) for the election were told by INEC to cast their votes at the various polling Units.
Many polling units reportedly started the election process after the planned time, and according to another report, some polling places did not hold elections.
In several polling units, voting was delayed for some reasons, according to INEC chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu.
He cited security concerns as one of the main causes of the voting delays, claiming that thugs broke into polling places and stole five Bimodal Voter Authentication Systems (BVAS), which the commission replaced to ensure voting started in various polling places.
Furthermore, he reassured the populace that everyone who turned up to vote would cast a ballot.
In his words,
“One of the challenges identified is the inability of the commission in a number of places to open the polling units at the appointed time of 8:30 am. Some of the polling units opened late. But in line with our policy, any Nigerian who is in the queue will have the opportunity to vote no matter how long it takes until the last person in the queue before 2:30 pm votes”
He also explained moving the materials required for election to their different locations was another reason for the delay in voting.
Nevertheless, one of the challenges that aroused on Election Day was fluctuations in the network providers. A citizen went back home to bring his internet router to provide adequate internet connection for the BVAs to work effectively.
This single act demonstrated a level of political participation.
However, various reactions were triggered by the election. While violence prevented some places from having good elections, voting was successful in other places.
According to the videos that surfaced via the internet, a lot of polling units were attacked and disturbing threats were shown made by thugs to get people to vote for a particular candidate.
While the oppressors attempted to force them to vote for a certain candidate, some celebrities and ordinary people were put in dangerous situations.
Subsequently, this brought chaos in some locations as people dispersed and ran to safety thereby leading to zero voting in these locations.
However, some brave citizens or rather patriots showed bravery in the presence of these threats and fought off the intruders and were able to cast their votes.
In addition to the recorded political participation in this present presidential election, individuals exercised their civic obligations by protecting their votes, by staying back to make sure their votes were accredited and counted in their presence before being sent to the Federal level.
The citizens made videos to keep records of the number of votes each candidate acquired.
Conclusion
The 2023 presidential elections have stirred up different emotions from Nigerians, some Nigerians are anxious and nervous concerning the results of the presidential elections while being hopeful and waiting for the results of the election which has already been postponed once.
All these patriotic demonstrations show The 2023 Presidential election is nothing like the past elections, where citizens showed more political apathy than political participation.
Will Democracy truly prevail in this election? Nigerians and the world are waiting to find out.
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